Author: Rakhimova, M.Kh.
Annotation: The given article discloses the function and peculiarities of stylistic devices (simile and symbols), used by A. Roy, author of the novel 'The God of Small Things' in the episode of children's tragic meeting with death and their direct perception of life drama, in available to their understanding sensory-emotional images.
Keywords: stylistic devices (simile and symbols), ‘magical’ realism, sensory-emotional perception of life, local coloring, motives of life and death
